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Source: Freshmeat Daily News Lost Labyrinth is a rogue-like role-playing game. It uses a Zelda-like graphics engine, and has high replayability. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A title melody was created. Curses were changed and a new curse with 20%+ level was added. Lamps and waterskins can no longe be stacked. Elfblood was changed so that all standard attributes are now raised by one at game start. Lame changed was changed such that your speed can never be higher then 6. The hydra can now be attacked with bows and slings. The Icelevel now has a new, better looking floor. Shoes of Waterwalking, Firewalking, and Icewalking were added. The mouse now responds better in the speed selection screen. Firebolt now does more damage.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DungeonMaker-Lib is a fork of the project DungeonMaker, which has been abandoned. A fork was chosen as changes needed to be made to the original code to more easily accommodate scripting front-ends. The code forks from their 2.02 release. This library "grows" dungeons using artificial life algorithms for use in isometric games. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: All changes from the DungeonMaker-Lib fork were merged with the main DungeonMaker tree. A preliminary Perl front-end was released.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SndBite is a specialized audio editor designed for breaking large recordings into smaller components with great efficiency. Its principal intended application is in linguistic research where it is often desirable to put each word or sentence into a separate file before further processing. Its features include multiple simultaneous views of the waveform at different resolutions, the ability to position window edges at transitions between sound and silence, automated setting of cut points at zero-crossings, automatic filename generation easily controlled by the user, and optional automatic playback on window motion. It is scriptable and may be run in batch mode without the GUI. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixed a bug that caused an error exit if the ancillary program, "Pause" was not available. It also added a workaround for a bug in the MS Windows implementation of Tcl that prevented the program from running. This bug is fixed in Tcl 8.5, now in beta.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Dual DHCP DNS Server is a combined DHCP/DNS server for small LANs. Dynamic DHCP allocates/renews host addresses, while the caching DNS server first tries resolving from DHCP-allotted names, then from cache, and only then forwarding to external DNS servers. It supports an optional static DHCP mode and static IPs, automatic dynamic DNS updates from DHCP, and the ability to co-exist with other DHCP servers. It is self-configuring and doesn't require the creation of zone files, and uses little memory and CPU. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: All known bugs were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Joystick control is a simple tool that lets you control popular media applications using your joystick. All you need to tell it is which joystick device you want to use. Optionally, you can specify priorities for your applications so that when one is not running, the program automatically directs joystick commands to the running application highest on the list. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Build system fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Python commandsplus is a Python module that complements the existing commands module with an extra function getstatusoutputerror, which separates the standard output from the standard error and makes it easier to evaluate return status. It also includes a useful function that protects a command line argument from shell metacharacters. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Rereleased with new, correct contact information. A few documentation fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Extended attributes for Python is a Python module created to manipulate extended attributes in filesystems that support them. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Rereleased with new, correct contact information. Documentation fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News python-inotify is a Python interface to the inotify file notification system present in Linux 2.6. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Changed to conform to the stable inotify interface.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News UPS monitor is a graphical monitoring application that lets users watch a UPS's status in real time. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Documentation fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SvxLink is a flexible general purpose voice services system for ham radio use. It can act as a repeater controller or operate on a simplex channel. The server consists of a core that handles the connection to the transceiver. The transceiver audio is connected to the PC through the sound card, and the PTT is controlled by a pin in the serial port. The voice services are loaded into the core as modules. Examples of existing voice services are a help system, a module that plays back everything you say, a module to connect to other EchoLink stations, and a voice mail module. The project also includes an EchoLink client GUI application (Qtel). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The bug that made the SvxLink server crash when recording voice mails on distributions other than Fedora has been fixed. A couple of other bugs have been fixed. A new "connect by call" feature in the EchoLink module has been added. The voicemail module can now send a notification email when a new voicemail arrives for a user. Log entries in the log file are now timestamped. It is now possible to use both DTR and RTS together for PTT, which is required by some interface boards.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) is a feature-complete development and deployment platform. Blackdown provides both a SDK (J2SDK, formerly known as JDK) and a runtime environment (J2RE) for Linux on various architectures (ix86, AMD-64, Sparc, PPC, S/390, ARM, m68k). Both the J2SDK and the J2RE contain the Java Plug-In for Netscape 4.x and Mozilla/Netscape 6.x. License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes: This release fixes Blackdown-SA-2005-03 [Java Runtime Environment May Allow Untrusted Applet to Elevate Privileges]. It fixes crashes with Eclipse on AMD-64. There are several other small fixes and enhancements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News episoder is a tool to tell you about new episodes of your favourite TV shows. It does so by parsing online TV show episode guides. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Reorganized command line options and improved search behaviour.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Open Source Quotes DataBase is a Web site which is very similar in style to the bash.org QDB. It is designed for people who would like to run their own quote sites. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The ability has been added for all admin users to change their own passwords, including mods. An error on some systems that stopped you from changing the admin password has been fixed. The voting page bug has been fixed. This will need a complete rewrite at a later stage. The browse function has been rewritten so that there are fewer problems with the page number output. The "Hacking Attempt" code has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Drqueue is a distributed rendering queue. It helps manage jobs on a render farm. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Windows, supports Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Bmrt (Renderman), 3Delight, and Pixie out of the box, and can support any other renderer or computing task that can be handled via scripting. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes incorrect job deletion. It fixes a bug in the computer details window with autorefresh.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Drqueue is a distributed rendering queue. It helps manage jobs on a render farm. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Windows, supports Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Bmrt (Renderman), 3Delight, and Pixie out of the box, and can support any other renderer or computing task that can be handled via scripting. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Merges bugfixes from the 0.62.x branch.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Simple Groupware is a complete groupware package. Unlike other groupwares, Simple Groupware contains a new programming language called sgsML, which was created to quickly create powerful Web applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds a new function to optimize database tables as admin. Setup fixes if magic_quotes_gpc is on.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Sparklet is a multiplayer networking game. It is a multi-platform (works well on Linux and Windows), real-time, 2D, top-down view, 3rd person space shooting game. The player pilots his armed space ship and engages in combat against other players. Two different play modes are available: deathmatch and team deathmatch. It uses OpenGL for graphics. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds two new weapons, a new map, and background stars. There are numerous bugfixes and optimizations all over the code. The Linux package has been enhanced. This release includes the full sound subsystem, but is missing sounds.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Aquamacs is a Mac-like version of the powerful Emacs text editor that runs as a standard OS X application. It features extensive customization that enables it to conform better with Apple's standard Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) than standard versions of the editor do. It provides a more Mac-like user experience than Carbon Emacs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release has Mac-style printing with preview, export to PDF and HTML, spelling suggestions with flyspell, a new buffer in mode / change major mode menus, a context menu (right mouse click), speed improvements, included nXML and AUCTeX, improved text display (international characters and proportional fonts), more compatibility with the core GNU Emacs, and an updated Emacs Manual. The "wrong command-p" bug has been fixed, and there are other changes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ToothMote is an application to control Linux computers using a BlueTooth-enabled cell phone. It provides a basis for communicating with a connected cell phone, and then uses a plugin architecture to easily expand the amount of functionality it provides.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GeDI, the GEneric Diskless Installer, is a set of bash scripts charged with the simple purpose of making it easier to install and manage a set of diskless clients. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Many background changes in this release. Better handling of changes to the MAC.info file, and better creation of the dhcpd.conf file. Now using the concept of "group"s in the dhcpd.conf file, and more options have been added to pxelinux so that a shared pxelinux.cfg file can be used for same node types (rather than one pxelinux.cfg file per node).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Libchipcard is a C/C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes some minor bugs and introduces direct reader usage for clients (needed for Reiner SCT Ecom Biometrics).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JExpress Professional lets you create multiplatform, multilingual installers and auto-updaters. An easy-to-use Swing interface lets you design your installers quickly without requiring any programming. You can build a single installer for multiple products or install types. It allows you to efficiently customize your installers using Java. JExpress Professional goes beyond just building Java installations; it can also select the exact classes your Java app uses, build your directory tree, and produce JAR files. JExpress Professional can even use a sophisticated algorithm to upload your software to your Web site without user intervention. It can create native installers for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris that install the JVM if it isn't already installed. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: Increases the number of available file handles on Mac OS, Solaris, and other versions of Unix when installing a program and launching a Java app. A popup dialog box while preparing the wizard for the installer.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GAMGI (General Atomistic Modelling Graphic Interface) is a program to build, view, and analyze atomic strucures such as molecules, crystals, glasses, liquids, etc. It aims to be useful for: the scientific community working in Atomistic Modelling that needs a graphic interface to build input data and to view and analyse output data, calculated with Ab-Initio and Molecular Mechanics programs; the scientific community at large studying chemistry, physics, materials science, geology, etc., that needs a graphic interface to view and analyse atomic structural information and to prepare images for presentations in classes and seminars; teaching chemistry and physics in secondary schools and universities; science promotion in schools, exhibitions and science museums. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A fast version of the Jodrey algorithm to generate Random Close Packed (RCP) atomic structures has been developed and tested (up to 50,000 atoms). The XML formats documentation has been fully updated. The word GAMGI is now a European Union Trademark.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News caui (Configurable Audible User Interface) is a simple plugin-based audible user interface. Plugins use speech synthesis software to interact with a user and perform specific actions. The main method of input is a keyboard or number pad. This project is the successor to the Blind MP3 Player. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: caui-cmd will exit immediately if caui has an mplayer process forked.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Car PC Development Kit is a kit for making a Linux distribution for a car PC. Unlike most distributions which come prepackaged and ready to load, this distribution requires downloading, compiling, and post-setup before you can load it into a system. The end result is a modular platform for quickly putting together a small Linux system to copy onto boot media and start using. The target platform is a mini-computer to be installed in an automobile and used either headless or with a monitor and some input device like a keyboard or remote control. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Fixes LIRC support for both CAUI and MPlayer. Updates the CAUI version, and updates the LIRC package to configure more buttons by default.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Open Motif Everywhere is the standard distribution of Open Motif built from the official Open Group sources for Open Motif. It has been ported to all popular Linux (and BSD) environments. Most modern distributions of Linux and BSD include the stable release. Annual support contracts are also available. License: Free To Use But Restricted Changes: Client-side anti-aliased fonts are supported via XFT. UTF-8 and UTF8_STRING atom support. The ability to show text and pixmaps in Label, LabelGadget, and all derived widgets Support for PNG and JPEG image formats in the same way as XPM is supported. Over 25 bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Net::DRI is a Perl library which offers a uniform API to access services from domain name registries, registrars, and resellers. It is an object-oriented framework that can be easily extended to handle various protocols (such as RRP, EPP, or custom protocols) and various transports methods (such as TCP, TLS, SOAP, or email). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release includes bugfixes for EURid operations, especially Sunrise. Net::DRI is now able to automatically reconnect itself after a .EU apply command. SSL client certificates are not mandatory anymore.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Webalizer Xtended is an extension of Webalizer, which adds additional monthly statistics for all "404 Not Found" errors found in your server log-file, including the number of the "404 Not Found" requests and the corresponding 404 URLs. It also fixes truncated user agent strings in the "User Agents" statistics, so user agent fields can now be grouped more precisely. It is helpful for detecting and correcting broken links or invasion attempts. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Security bugfixes for several buffer overflows in the original Webalizer code, and some changes in the compiler behaviour.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KBoggle is a Boggle game for KDE. Boggle is a game in which the players must make words out of the letters found in a randomly generated grid of letters. The goal is to find as many words as possible in the given time. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds an icon, improvements to the settings dialog (layout fixes, "what's this?"), a language bar for a quick overview of language settings, a fix for an access violation, use of the appropriate text color for light or dark backgrounds, new translations (BG, CY, DA, EL, ES, IT, LT, RW, SR, SV), and various minor fixes. In mouse mode, you cannot select random cells now, only those near the last selected cell.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PHPSPELLBOOK is a suite of tools for Web site promotion, diagnosis, and improvement. It provides Web masters with tools such as advertisiment submission, a mass mailer, a broken link checker, a link exchange checker, fake click generators, anonymizer tools, a calendar, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds documentation updates, a code cleanup, new sources for socks4, socks5, and proxy lists, an installation script fix, a link popularity checker, and a partners finding tool.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Abook is small and powerful ncurses based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client. Abook runs on Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds I18n support (including French, German, Swedish, and Japanese translations), documentation for translators, a Palmcsv importation filter, and various bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News recoverdm is a program that helps to recover disks with bad sectors. Files can be recovered as well as complete devices. If a sector (on a CD/DVD) cannot be read, even after several retries, it also tries to read the sector in RAW-mode. Multiple images of multiple recovery attempts can be merged into one correct image. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds the ability to set the start-offset to read from the damaged media, a small performance optimization, and a fix for an infinite loop.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Tavli3d is a Greek version of backgammon. It consists of three games: portes (similar to Backgammon), plakoto (a game of pinning instead of hitting) and fevga (a game where no hitting occurs). It is written in OpenGL/SDL with fun and simplicity in mind. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A few configuration-related bugs were fixed, related to failed libpng and/or libvorbisfile dependencies even though they were installed. Configuration with the --prefix option is now possible. The client code has been completely deactivated for now. All calls to exit (which caused unwanted behavior and crashes in some systems) have been replaced with calls to _exit (which does the job everywhere).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Colonist is a meta-distribution that exploits existing live CD Linux distributions by adapting them to the coLinux platform. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Advanced settings were improved. A new distribution was added. A new configuration file format is used for passing parameters to the daemon. Many bugs were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ultimate Stunts is a remake of the DOS game "stunts", providing modern features like OpenGL graphics, 3D sound, and Internet-based multiplayer games. Players can design their own tracks, choose opponents and try some spectacular stunts. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version contains many improvements in its network protocol. Network multiplaying was already possible, but many missing features are now available in this version. It is even possible for clients who have missing files to download these files from the game server. There are many other improvements, like better handling of the start and finish positions, LWO import in the 3D editor and, a changed third person camera view.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News arxtools is a collection of tools to create, examine, and modify ARX archives. It supports almost all the features of the Arxx API, hence allowing external data referencing, merging, and relation sets. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds some important features like path resolution and getting information about items and relations. It also improves some other features like the parsing of numeric values on the command line. However, the most important change is that three tools have been removed. arxdump is replaced by an improved arxget, arxstructure has been integrated into arxmod, and arxarchive has been split between the two. This means that the tool suite is now nearly minimal and the interface will not be reduced for some time now.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Debian autobuild support for VFS ODS2 module has been written. Some bugs were fixed, including miscellaneous compiling and build problems. The index file was not extended on both VFS ODS2 and FreeVMS ODS2. The VFS ODS2 did not update new directory buffers or update inode size. VFS ODS2 had problems when allocating big files, so the algorithm was changed. Init had errors in fm2 related code.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Flightdeck-UI is a project that utilizes the ideas in the design of aircraft controls and instruments for creating general purpose user interfaces. The project includes Flightdeck-UI Online (a Web-based dashboard that works entirely through the browser), the Multi-Variable Monitor (MVM) application, and a Tkinter widget library. Flightdeck-UI Online is installed on a Web server. Configuration files are simple Python scripts; two examples are included with the distribution. The MVM application provides a graphical editor with theme support for quickly creating Flightdeck-UI control panels. Several such panels are included as examples. It is not necessary to write code in order to use MVM. For those wishing to do so, however, plug-in modules are very easy to develop. Several such modules are provided in the distribution. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release includes minor bugfixes from the advanced beta (version 0.3.91).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Java Lemonade Stand is a Swing-based Applet implementation of a lemonade stand game. Users make choices regarding the amount and type of lemonade to prepare each day, the price to charge, and the amount of advertising to purchase. The weather and random events will impact your sales. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Changes from version 1.0 include the addition of more random events and the addition of lemonade types.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WmG is a plugin for the Gaim IM client which provides a "dockapp" in Window Maker and similar window managers. It features a convenient list of your 3 best buddies, and allows you to start a conversation with any one of them with a single click. Additionally, it unobtrusively notifies you of changes occurring in your buddy list, such as people signing on and off, going away, coming back, idling, etc. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This initial release contains basic functionality, such as a scrolling text which provides information about changes to your buddy list and single-click access to conversations with your 3 best buddies.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News xplain2sql converts files from Xplain to SQL. It supports a very large subset of Xplain, and it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Inprise InterBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or ANSI-92 SQL. It can also generate an XML description of the generated SQL. This XML description can be used to create low-level middle-tier code. A Delphi/ADO XSLT style sheet is included. The C source code release should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler. There are binary releases for FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, and Windows 2000. License: Eiffel Forum License (EFL) Changes: MySQL 5 and SQLite support was added. Complete support was added for init and init default for most dialects. InterBase 6 improvements were done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The GNU Gatekeeper GUI visualizes all registrations and VoIP calls the gatekeeper is managing. It also allows the user to send commands to the gatekeeper (e.g., to terminate calls or unregister H.323 endpoints). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A bug has been fixed that prevented usage with a non-password-protected status port. Small visual changes were also made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for various mobile phones/modems. It supports the Nokia 2100, 3100, 32xx, 33xx, 3410, 35xx, 51xx, 5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 6610, 6800, 71xx, 7210, 7250, 7250i, 82xx, 83xx, 8910, 9110, 9210 and compatible and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung, SE, and others) over cables/infrared/BlueTooth. It contains libraries with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time, alarm, calls, etc. (used by external applications like Wammu), a command line version (it can make many things including backup/restore) and SMS gateway (with full MySQL support from the PHP interface). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Makefiles were added for the free Microsoft Visual C++ Express compiler. Fixes were made in filesystem support. The ability to check the RSS file from the Web page for new versions was added. Other fixes and improvements were done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Minor FAQ updates and corrections were made. The configure script aborts if the ar(1) command cannot be found. Berkeley DB 4.4 is now supported.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Smart DJ lets you find tracks based on how similar they sound to each other. It can also automatically add new tracks to your playlist based on how similar they are to what you've been listening to. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The tempo dialog box has been revamped and now it preserves more state when changing the tempo of tracks. A stupid bug that happened for SQLite users was corrected. A bug when determining the upcoming tracks number was corrected. The "collection has been fully analyzed" message is not shown if it's the first time it runs or if there is no collection. A general master/slave DCOP bridge was implemented for use with FC4's kdebindings. This bridge is also about 10 times faster than the old communication system for normal operation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News htmlobserver is a program that downloads a Web page at regular intervals, and searches it for regular expressions. All HTML tags are removed, and the remaining text is searched for regular expressions, which can be defined in a list. Matching rows are displayed in a panel, and different alarms may be triggered. The alarms are repeated when the result set changes. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Simple page-redirections, identified by the 302 HTTP return code, are now followed. The code was modified to use JDK 1.5 features.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GroundWork Foundation is a network management data abstraction layer and development platform written in Java. Currently, it uses data from Nagios, but feeders can easily be written for other network management tools. It uses a listener-feeder architecture and exchanges data in XML. The feeders and the listener can be extended with PHP, Perl, and Java APIs. Currently, it is built with Sun's JDK 1.4.2, not 1.5. Note that building requires the proper installation of Apache Maven and Ant. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This is the first snapshot release of Foundation 1.1 after the code freeze. Enhancements include integration with more diverse data sources in addition to Nagios, the ability to add data normalizers dynamically to the feeder framework, and the ability to enhance the data store of the admin feeder via XML feeds. A new tutorial was written to teach how to write a data normalizer and integrate it into Foundation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Blame displays the last modification for each line in an RCS file. It is the RCS equivalent of CVS's "annotate" command. An annotated RCS file describes the revision and date in which each line was added to the file, and the author of each line. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a few bugs in handling files containing RCS keywords and dollar signs ($).
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